Elexhere

Seven Ways To Install Magnets Into Your 3D Prints | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/07/19/seven-ways-to-install-magnets-into-your-3d-prints/

3dprint

Magnets are awesome, so it’s no wonder we love to add them to our 3D prints. Doing so in a way that will actually last is harder, with thermal creep being one reason a simple friction fit wil…

Old SSDs Find New Life As Game Cartridges | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/old-ssds-find-new-life-as-game-cartridges/

game
3dprint

Game companies might not like physical media much anymore, but gamers sure do. There’s nothing like pawing over your collection to find what to play, and inserting a cartridge with a satisfyi…

Trying To Use A 2007 Samsung UMPC As Wii U Gamepad | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/07/11/trying-to-use-a-2007-samsung-umpc-as-wii-u-gamepad/

As unique the Nintendo Wii U Gamepad may appear to be, at its core it’s pretty much just a tablet with game controls stuck on it. Now that the communication between the Wii U and the Gamepad …

This Giant ATmega Chip Won’t Run Code, But It Will Charge Your Phone - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/this-giant-atmega-chip-won-t-run-code-but-it-will-charge-your-phone-30ba2e5f2bda

chip
3dprint

Nick Electronics built a giant, 3D-printed ATmega chip that doubles as a fully functional wireless phone charger.

Mark Rober Steals a Car to Prevent Car Theft - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/mark-rober-steals-a-car-to-prevent-car-theft-90b3982e6970

Hackrf
Car

This is how thieves use cheap hardware to steal cars and how you can prevent that.

The Fully Automatic Craftphilia Tufting Machine Launches on Kickstarter With a Bang - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/the-fully-automatic-craftphilia-tufting-machine-launches-on-kickstarter-with-a-bang-d6b216300ca9

Sew

This machine promises perfect tufting results, no matter your level of skill.

Layer-Free, Ultra-Fast 3D Printing Is Now Available to You - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/layer-free-ultra-fast-3d-printing-is-now-available-to-you-6f0cdb4b62b6

3dprint

It is possible to print without layers at all. It is fast and it is now available to you, thanks to OpenCAL.

Simone Carriero's Makerplot 3D-Printable Plotter Gets a Serious Upgrade: Meet Makerplot 2.0 - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/simone-carriero-s-makerplot-3d-printable-plotter-gets-a-serious-upgrade-meet-makerplot-2-0-c0f5c545472b

3dprint

New stepper motors and a modular framework deliver improved speed, accuracy, and the claim of an "infinitely expandable" canvas.

Build Your Own “Holographic” Display on a Tiny Budget - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/build-your-own-holographic-display-on-a-tiny-budget-e67302a2c4d2

Led

Volumetric displays are very expensive. If you’re on a tight budget, you can instead build this “holographic” display for about $30.

You Can Build Your Own ESP32 Walkie-Talkies - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/you-can-build-your-own-esp32-walkie-talkies-99e571317536

Tech Talkies used a pair of ESP32 boards and ESP-NOW to build custom, 3D-printed walkie-talkies with a 200m range.

3D Printed Hose Sprayer Sets Phasers To Suds | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/06/11/3d-printed-hose-sprayer-sets-phasers-to-suds/

The weather is warming up, and for many of us that means more time spent working out in the yard. You probably won’t find any new life or new civilizations out there, but if you’ve spen…

DIY Ceramic Circuit Boards Surely Count As Solarpunk | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/06/03/diy-ceramic-circuit-boards-surely-count-as-solarpunk/

Led
Clay

Solarpunk is all about combining that DIY hacker ethos with sustainability and renewable resources. Our usual PCB manufacturing methods, with their bevy of chemical baths and petrochemical resins a…

The z386 Is an FPGA Re-implementation of Intel's i386 — And Yes, It Runs Doom - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/the-z386-is-an-fpga-re-implementation-of-intel-s-i386-and-yes-it-runs-doom-c2dfe05c3625

386
FPGA

"There is a reasonable argument that the 386 is Intel's most important CPU," project creator "nand2mario" says.

GitHub - Inclusive-Bytes/CrowdClock · GitHubhttps://github.com/Inclusive-Bytes/CrowdClock

Contribute to Inclusive-Bytes/CrowdClock development by creating an account on GitHub.

Building Festival Badges That Sync Themselves Up | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/building-festival-badges-that-sync-themselves-up/

Lots of music events these days hand out various glowing tchotchkes that flash and sync up with the performance. [Tony Goacher] has whipped up his own badges that can do just that, all without need…

Using 3D Printers To Make Circuit Boards | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/05/19/using-3d-printers-to-make-circuit-boards/

Pcb
3dprint

Custom printed circuit boards have become more and more accessible to the average hobbyist over the last decade. But one problem still remains: your circuits will take at least a couple days to mak…

FreeCAD 1.1 Tutorial, For Beginners Who Like Clear Instructions | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/05/13/freecad-1-1-tutorial-for-beginners-who-like-clear-instructions/

3d
Freecad

If you’ve been interested in FreeCAD but haven’t known where to start, here’s a wonderful video tutorial for FreeCAD 1.1 by [Deltahedra] aimed squarely at how to model a 3D part f…

Extract 3D Video Game Content By Firing Up Photo Mode | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/05/17/extract-3d-video-game-content-by-firing-up-photo-mode/

3d scan
Game

Here’s a pretty clever method [Dung3onlord] used to capture 3D scenes from a PlayStation 5 without needing any specialized software. All that’s needed is a series of high-resolution scr…

Mod This IKEA Lamp Into Smart Lighting For Not A Lot | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/05/15/mod-this-ikea-lamp-into-smart-lighting-for-not-a-lot/

Led
Ikea

The IKEA SKAFTSÄRV is an economical LED accent lamp, but while highly affordable it has only fixed lighting options. [simoneluconi] shows how it can easily be turned into a fully-configurable, WLED…

Another Gift To The World From CERN: Their Entire Set Of KiCad Libraries | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/05/12/another-gift-to-the-world-from-cern-their-entire-set-of-kicad-libraries/

Kicad

As the foremost boffins of Europe toil deep underneath the border between Switzerland and France in their never-ending quest to truly understand the fabric of the Universe, they rely on a vast amou…